[zfs-discuss] Checksum fletcher4 or sha256 ?

2010-01-29 Thread Mirko
Hi, I'm atmost ready to deploy my new homeserver for final testing. Before I want to be sure that nothing big is left untouched. Reading ZFS Admin Guide About the checksum method, there's no advice about it. The default is fletcher4. there's also SHA256 Now the sha256 is pretty 'heavy' to calculate

Re: [zfs-discuss] Going from 6 to 8 disks on ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboa

2010-01-27 Thread Mirko
I use a Sil3132 based card. It's a 2 port PCI-e 1x supported by OpenSolaris 2009.06 and latest Solaris 10 natively. It's cheap ($25) support SATA 2. I use it to boot my boot disk. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Mirko
>I just took a look at customer feedback on this > drive here. 36% rate with >one star, which I would > consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from >lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of the comments and the >descriptions: Every people vote in different way for the same thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Mirko
> I just took a look at customer feedback on this > drive here. 36% rate with one star, which I would > consider alarming. Take a look here, ordered from > lowest rating to highest rating. Note the recency of > the comments and the descriptions: > Every people vote in different way for the same t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-22 Thread Mirko
Well, I've purchased 5 Barracuda LP 1.5TB. They ran very queit, cool, 5 in a cage and the vibration are nearly zero. reliability ? Well every HDD is unreliable, every major brand at this time have problems, so go for the best bang for the bucks. In my country Seagate have the best RMA service, w